-Wine tasting will be on a yet-to-be-determined date in March, 2018. The theme will be the Enfield Rotary Club’s 90th anniversary.

-Rotary After Hours will be this Thursday Nov. 16th at Bella Vita restaurant.

-Letter from Amazon Smiles that our club has been designated a charitable recipient. Anyone who buy off the Amazon Smiles (go there, not Amazon.com – same website) website and indicates the Enfield CT Rotary Club, we get a small percentage of the purchase price.

-Thank you received from the Enfield Jack-o-lantern festival for our support.

-Rotary club of Windsor/Windsor Locks about their poinsettia sale

Presentations

Pres. Carol made presentations to all of the rotarian veterans at the meeting, and recognized all of our member veterans:

Korean War

Thomas D. Leary Army 1953-1954

Jordan Chatis Army 1957-1959

Viet Nam

David Drinan Navy 1964-1969

Larry Tracey Air Force 1965-1969

David O’Connor Army 1966-1972

Alan Drinan Navy 1966-1971

Joe Fallon Army 1968-1970

Mike Helechu Air Force 1973-1980

Greg Stokes Navy 1975-1978

Carol Bohnet Army 1975-1978

Desert Shield/Storm

Mike Helechu CT Air Natl Guard 1988-2002

Reserves

Milt Rosenberg CT Air Natl Guard 1963-1969

Stu Barowsky US Coast Guard 1965-1972

Jack Welsh Air Natl Guard 1969-1975

-Pres. Carol exchanged club and district banners with Gov. Dave.

-Gov. Dave made several presentations to Enfield Rotary Club members

Milt R. – 31 years of perfect attendance

Enfield Rotary Club – Polio Plus and Foundation Giving

Bill S. – outstanding service to the club and district

Lindsey W. – work on accessible playground and scholarship foundation

Cheryl L. – establishing the Rotaract club at BayPath College

Program

District Gov. Dave discussed many things including the following topics:

-International Assembly in San Diego

-Rotary International Serves the Clubs, not the other way around

-Interact (high school students) and Rotaract (college students) are the future of Rotary. Interacters go to college looking for Rotaract clubs. Rotaracters get jobs and look to join Rotary clubs.

-The Power of One (person making a difference)

-Rotarians are special people – looking to do for others, not for others to do for us

-Giving back

-Optimism

-Having fun while serving

-Success because we are engaged with one another

-If not us then who? If not now, then when?

-Importance of membership development: Use the 10-3-1 rule of sales. Reach out to 10 people. Get three to a Rotary meeting. Find one who will make a good Rotarian. You only fail if you stop trying to invite someone.

-Retirees make great Rotarians. They have the time, the experience, and often the resources.

Lastly Gov. Dave talked about “Rotary Means Business” and the first district RMB event held in Glastonbury on Nov. 9. RMB is a networking and referral event that is like speed-dating for businesses. Rotarians and their guests are invited. They are social, fun and generate new business relationships and hopefully new Rotarians.